Beschreibung:
Critical Themes in World Music is a reader of nine short essays by the authors of the successful Excursions in World Music, Eighth Edition, edited by Timothy Rommen and Bruno Nettl. The essays introduce key and contemporary themes in ethnomusicology, creating a counterpoint to the area studies approach of the textbook.
Chapter 1: Introduction (Timothy Rommen) / Chapter 2: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (Joshua D. Pilzer) / Chapter 3: Music and Ritual (Richard Jankowsky) / Chapter 4: Coloniality and "World Music" (Chérie Rivers Ndaliko) / Chapter 5: Music and Space (Marié Abe) / Chapter 6: Music and Diaspora (Timothy Rommen) / Chapter 7: Communication, Technology, Media (Andrea F. Bohlman) / Chapter 8: Musical Labor, Musical Value (Jim Sykes) / Chapter 9: Music and Memory (Lei Ouyang)